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Anyone try watching "The Shield?"

It's a story about corrupt cops in LA's gangland, a police captain trying to come out of it as a successful Latino politician, and the street gangs that are fighting to control California's largest city and all the drug traffic from Mexico.

It's very real and a show that will make you very angry, but hook you in!

I hope that one of them blows away that child-rapist next week. He made me so mad, just doing that to tick them off, that I don't care if he gets a fair trial or not. It's wrong and I know it - but he's not even a citizen and he's not in the United States doing legitimate business either. He's scum, pure and simple.

Then again, so are the cops in that show - so they might as well kill him.

The cops almost fire-ringed the other cartell leader in the last show - and they would have done it if he didn't come up with the cash, too. I love how they double-crossed him and knocked him out and took him across the border in the trunk of their car! The bumper stickers were a nice finishing touch.

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Wasn't that show originally touted under a different name, "Rampart"? What's up with that. I refuse to watch any shows dealing with the criminal justice system, as I feel both day and nighttime TV are saturated with them. Judge Judy, Judge Mathis, Judge Hatchett, Divorce Court, People's Court, The Shield, 24, NYPD Blue, the list goes on. It's insane. What are TV producers trying to tell us?

I usually don't watch tv dramas because the only way to fully enjoy them is to watch every episode. It's like a 200 hour long movie. There are a lot of good ones, but it just takes up alot of time when you get hooked on them.

Seasons 3, 4, 5, and now 6 (starts in January) have their own thread. This one's obviously the Season 1 & 2 thread.

I've just started rewatching all of the shows on DVD again and will put more of my Season 1 & 2 comments here, the rest in their appropriate threads.

Anyway, I'm the last one to notice anything I guess, but Assistant Chief Gilroy, was played by noneother than John Diehl, Miami Vice's Larry Zito!

Holy crying out loud, Batman! Maybe I'm slow or maybe no one else picked up on this, but I'd been missing The Shield so much that I'd just bought and watched all of Miami Vice (they only sell Seasons 1 & 2 at the moment) and now I've started re-watching my Shield DVDs and guess what???

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But oh man! Vic threatened Armadillo through his brother (the guy they kidnapped in Mexico and drove across the border in their car trunk). He "green lit" the brother in prison, but so Armadillo wouldn't have anything be held against him - HE KILLED HIS OWN BROTHER (through another gang member in jail)!!!

That's pretty cold! Armadillo was a great bad guy. Probably the best that's been on The Shield.

"Detective Mackey will remember the face."

Sizzle!

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